Autumn Ramsey Biography

Painting is the subjective space chosen by Autumn Ramsey to attempt a new definition of the body. In Autumn Ramsey's exhibition texts, mention is often made of the relationship that the western world has had with the body, considering it as an object, detached from the mind and irrational. In the case of the female body, with the support of myths of origins, there has also been added a potentially dangerous aspect, requiring constant control. While mainly inhabited by bodies – human, animal, but also half- human half- animal, emerging from the imagination of people from the western world, such as sphinxes and satyrs – the paintings of this exhibition seem to verge towards an uncertain zone where the human, animal and vegetal become one. The figures, hitherto distinct, give way to vegetal forms. On taking a closer look, the forms might remain organic, but become increasingly abstract. There is a mingling of sinuous tubes, lobes, throats opening tremblingly, arachnid surfaces, and perhaps plasma membranes. The matter is made up of overlapping and a superposition of layers, with a clear transparency, creating a vibrato never seen before.

Autumn Ramsey's work was presented at soccer club, Chicago (US), Musée d'art moderne de Paris (FR), Le Consortium, Dijon (FR), Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine (FR), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (PL), Crèvecœur, Paris (FR), Park View/Paul Soto, Los Angeles (US), CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge (FR), Night Club, Chicago (US), The Whitney Houston Biennale, Murdertown (US), Swiss Institute, New York (US). Public collections include Musée d'art moderne de Paris (FR), RISD Museum (US), FRAC-Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine (FR).